Quotes with over-great

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  • Vauvenargues To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Leonard Bernstein To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • John Tillotson To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Charles Edward Montague To be amused by what you read, that is the great spring of happy quotations.
    Charles Edward Montague
    English journalist and writer (1867 - 1928)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
    Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) 1, 5
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To be great is to be misunderstood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Don Piatt To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
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  • Mark Twain To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bono To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Blair Underwood To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Ken Keyes Jr To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
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  • Carly Fiorina To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Heraclitus To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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